{"id":1441,"date":"2015-05-18T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-48\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T07:00:02","slug":"gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregorian Chant: The Eternal Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Fidelis<\/p>\n<p><em>Ascended<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?\u00a0 This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him ascend into heaven.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Mode 1 Offertory for Thursday&#8217;s Ascension contains a melismatic passage on the word <em><strong>&#8220;ascend&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> that is word painting in sound. Its &#8220;startling&#8221; leaps span an octave, with many thirds and fifths, all sung in a light and floating\u00a0manner, according to the ancient notation.\u00a0 One can only imagine the clouds parting and swirling as he rose from their sight.\u00a0 Listen to this amazing piece, one of the great gems of the Gregorian repertory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4942135\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0552-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/TXpq8ccDaho\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Fidelis Ascended\u00a0 &#8220;Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?\u00a0 This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him ascend into heaven.&#8221; The Mode 1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gregorian-chant-the-eternal-song-48\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}